Our monthly series Meet the Edcite Team continues! Each month we feature a different member of our team. This month we are featuring our intern, Heyaw Meteke.
Heyaw recently created a Growth Report for our Edcite Schools platform. It allows administrators to chart growth in assignment averages and look for trends among groups of students. It is a great tool for schools who pre and post assess with the same assignment.
Read below to learn more about Heyaw and his work at Edcite.
Where do you go to school? What are you studying?
I’m currently a senior at Gateway High School in San Francisco. My favorite class is physics because I can see how the math and concepts I learn apply to real life. Our end of the year project was constructing a rocket that can safely return a raw egg after launch.
What brought you to Edcite?
I came to Edcite to gain an understanding of a company in the tech sector as well as building skills in a team environment that will help me become a better programmer.
Tell us about what you’ve been working on during your internship.
I’m currently working on a character recognition application which hopefully in the future will be able to parse and understand handwritten math equations. This can be a major feature for devices like tablets and phones where users can easily write it instead of awkwardly typing math expressions with the keyboard.
What do you plan to do after high school?
I am planning on going to college to pursue a major in computer engineering and want to be an embedded engineer. I am interested in that field because I enjoy working on hardware and devices that interact with the physical world.
What Heyaw’s co-workers say:
We’re very happy to have Heyaw help us prototype new features for Edcite’s student tools. He’s been great at taking machine learning ideas and quickly implementing them in Python. Quite impressive for a high school student. -Tony Thomas, Edcite Co-Founder
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